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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22
Indicted for rhrea.ening Witnes.es.

CHARLESTON. ". Va, Nov. 21.-Several
months ago complaint was made to the Pension
Department. Washington. that some one was
going through West Virginia defraudinR PEN
soners by representing himself as a government
officer. Special Agent Roome was sent out by
the department. to investigate. After long
search through Clay and Roane counties, he
arrested James H. Ellison being the person
who defrauding pensioners by fraudulently
representing himself As being pension officer.
Ellison was to-day indicted by the United States
grand jury for the offense. number of Eli.
sons friends in Roane and Clay counties
threatened, abused and endeavored to prevent
the witnesses summoned by the government
from appearing against him, and in two in
stances it is alleged that they pointed loaded
reviewers at the heads of witnesses. threatening
their lives if they testified against Ellison The
government being informed of this. had war
rants issued for the arrest of the guilty parties
Harry Hargess and James Lyons were arrested
and lodged in Jail in this city. They in
dicted to-day by the grand jury of the Districs
Court
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THE proposed transfer of Mr.. Villas from the
Postofice to the Interior Department is excit-
Ing less opposition than was expected from
the South. which was known to want one of
it's own representatives to succeed Mr.. Lamar.
The explanation is made that Mr.. Villas is re-
sponsible for the worst postal service ever
known in the Southern States, and that the
people there thankful to get rid of him,
even ut the sacrifice OF one of their own states
men. The Villas boom for the vice presidency
may possibly have growth down there on
the same principle.
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An Innocent Man Punished.

Shlppensang Pa. Special.
year ago DR. Charles Lanteine. of Mongul.
this county, highly respected citizen. was
charged by young woman of Moneul with hay-
ing betrayed her. Dr. Lanteae was arrested
on the charge but denied all knowledge of the
girl. He was So emphatic in his declaration OF
innocence that he refused to accept offer
made by the plaintiffs counsel to compromise.
He was convicted by the girls testimony alone,
and sentenced to three months in the county
Jail.
The girls cause had been championed by a
prominent resident OF high standing socially
and in business. DIR. Lanteline served his term
in Jail, and resumed his practice in Mongul
when he released. The girl who accused
him died recently. and a great sensation has
been created in TINS part of the country by the
fact having been made public day So ago,
that while on her death bed she sent for tho
wife of the citizen who had aided her In the case
against the Doctor, and confessed to the lady
that DR.. Lanteiine Was entirely innocent of tho
charge she lad made against him and for which
he was punished and that the iadY's husband
himself was the real criminal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22
one of Boomers Advertisements.

New York World.
Some years ago. when Mr.. Bonner became
chased place in the country. He had not
been there great while when the following ap
peared in the Ledger under the heading, "A
Country Seat for Sale Where there Is Fever
and Ague:'
hereby offer to sell my country seat at West
Morrisana, near Melrose Station, where have lived
for the past three summers but do not think could
live much longer have heard that people looking
for place to purchase could never find one where
they have chills and fever. They always have it
but right there at the place that is for sale.
Now offer for sale curiosity-something rare-the
precise, exact spot where the fever and ague is.
will warrant it to be there. Three of my children
inonitory symptoms and have sufficient mixing of
it myself Any doctor with large family, with
specific for fever and would find II most eli
gble situation. The neighborhood is full of the dis
and if he could keep oct of his family, it
would give him reputation which would assure his
future. Besides the fever and ague the estate
fences and improvements, such hot and cold water
furnace range, and forth: about two of land
pretty barn and excellent box stalls for horses.
1t IS really beautiful place. The grounds hand
son,ely laid and covered with shrubbery and
of the choicest kind. The trees not only afford de-
ligh.ful shade. but nice haibor for mosquitoes
please my whole family. Terms cash. ] afraid
my security it would get the fever and and
become shay. Those wishing to purchase viii please
apply Immediately. want to get away from it as
fast as Dexter carry ROBERT BoSNEa
Ledger Office. No. so Beekman street
SEPT. 1s, 1867.
P. S.-The town authorities have begun to make
alterations the streets adjoining and if they drain
the place well they do the pockets of the land
holders n may become healthy
This advertisement created quite sensation
at the time and copied in the daily papers
all over the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22
GOVERNOR GRAY AS A SOLDIER.

Some of the Democratic papers are talking
of Governor Grays military record. Some of
them are prasing him as a gallant soldier
For the purpose of shielding the Governor
from the modification and chagrin which
these overzealous friends will bring upon
him if they persist in this course, we give be-
low his record as appears in the Adjutant-
generals reports of the State of Indiana:
On Sept. s. 1862. being year and five
months after the war had commenced. he en-
listed as Colonel" in the Fourth Cavalry
Seventy-seventh Regiment, Indiana Volun-
colonel of that regiment and served five
months and six days, when the record in
forms US he resigned. but for what cause is
not shown. (vol. 3, page L, Report of Ter
rell, Adjutant-general.)
Contemporaneous history informs us that
his regiment was then across the Ohio river
from Madison. this State. in Kentucky; and
when the regiment started South he started
North.
His next bit of military history is even
more inconsequential than the first. He
again enlisted as colonel" on July II, 1868,
and was mustered out on July IL 1868, the
exact length of his service being five days,
during which time he commanded the One
hundred and sixth Regiment, Indiana Volun-
teers. Vol. 3, page 164, ibid
His next service, appears in the history
before referred to, is in connection with the
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No one else comes near him in their affections:
hence the danger of experimenting with new
man. The political philosopher may moralize
upon this strange choice of popular hero, but
the practical politician deals only with the fact.
Philadelphia Record.
THE London fog is exceedingly thick just now.
but it is the perfection of clearness as compared
with the grimy mists and shadows which be-
cloud the Judgment of the Tory government
However a government like that which Balfour
is trying TO maintain in ireland has one advant-
age-it may not be able to see far through the
fog which surrounds it but the other hand
nobody can see into it.-Philadelphia Press
BANK examination can never be done effect
lively so long as the examiners themselves are
permitted to know in advance into what banks
they are to be sent 1t should be the fixed rule
of the department that each examiner is to be
sent where and when the Comptroller pleases
and is himself to be kept IN ignorance OF his
future movements until the time for them
arrives.-New York Commercial Advertiser
HERR MosT uttering murderous threats in the
security of a beer saloon, or expressing a wish
to die for the cause to selected circle of An
archists, and poor Johann Most before court
of justice denying that he ever said it. furnish
two pictures that the caricaturist will be sure to
take advantage of. The poor Anarch looks as
ridiculous, and. doubt, feels as cheap to-day
as did the ass of the fable when the lions skin
was pulled from him.-Brooklyn Standard
Union.
with an intention to resign from the Senate in
order to run for Governor of the Hoosier State
doubtless originate in tnat.mystical region. in
habited chiefly by the sea serpent inventors
Senator Voorhees, present term does not
pire until 1891, and while he will fight, bleed
and die for Indiana, the stump, he certainly
won't give up four years of service at S., GOO per
year to rescue party which some one else can
rescue just well. That isn't the kind of a tall
sycamore the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash hap
pens to be.-Philadelphia Times.
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COMMENT AND OPINION.

By the way if the Knights of Labor instead
of souabblng about politics, would unite for the
enforcement of the laws and get few of these
coal fiends behind the bars. they would have
the good Nyil and sympathy of the entire com
munity-lVew York Herald
DEMoCRATIC bank examiners seem to be bet
ter political hustlers than book keepers The
Stafford Springs Comm Bank has 80. 900 left
from capital and surplus of 1924 900, and the
Fifth NATIONAL of ST. Louis it turns out, has
been insolvent for four years.-Detroit Tribune.
The real question of interest is what the
American peopl, want and not what three free
traders want. That we shall soon know, and it
will then make vevy little difference to anybody
there is fair play IL the House.-Boston Adver-
tiser.
IT might not be harder for the Republican poll
ticians to drop BLAINE than it for the Wing
politicians of generation ago to desert Henry
Clay But in abandoning Blaine the difficulty
would be TO find candidate who could fill his
place in the hearts OF the Republican masses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

The failure of the Auburn, n. Y, jury to
return o verdict against tBlind Patterson"
and his associates in the fraudulent pension
ease, may perhaps be accounted for on the
theory that they believed the government off,
cials who permitted him to draw the $4,000
equally culpable; and as they could not re-
turn verdict against Commissioner Black for
gross carelessness declined to visit the entire
penalty for the crime upon the ignorant ne
gro. Jurors are sometimes known to rise above
Jaw and evidence in just UGH an unreasonable
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

THE disaster in the English channel will
acknowledged piece of criminal carelessness
upon the part of transatlantic ship-owners and
managers. Mr.. Frank A. Richardson, the
well-known correspondent, called the atten-
ton of General Dumont, of the Treasury
anything like the number of boats required to
accommodate her passengers in case of acct
dent, and General Dumont corroborated the
statement. As matter of experience, one
of the largest ocean steamers, this summer,
had 1,546 persons on board, and there were
not boats for than 500 people at the out
side. Something should be done to remedy
this criminal evil.
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diers, he did not seek promotion, but was con-
tent with the rank of captain" of the
Union City Guards, in which place he served
from Aug. s, 1868, until Nov. Is, 1868, at
which latter date he resigned, and thereafter
devoted his energies to the civil pursuits Of
life. (Vol. 3, ibid, 50S)
During all the time of this grand "a mill
tary service, it is said that he never exposed
his person to the danger of an enemy's bullet.
In the light of this history, our suggestion
would be that the military services of our val
liant Governor be quietly passed over by his
admirers, and that they refer to his more
glorious record as civil oficer-for instance,
his presidency of the Indiana State Senate,
when the fifteenth amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States was passed;
and when he, as presiding officer, ordered the
doors of the Senate locked, and counted GER
tain unwilling Democratic Senators, who had
fed to the lobby, in order to make the two
thirds necessary to pass the amendment.
Here is something in his history the Demo
Gratis can be proud of! We commend it to
them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

THE official figures of the recent Pennsyl-
yania election are made public this morning.
and we respectfully call the attention OF Mr..
Randall. and of all the other Democrats who SO
prematurely jubilated over them. Two years
ago, in the election for Treasurer, Mr.. Quay
received 324. 694 votes; this year Mr.. Fart.
the Republican candidate, received $50, 514,
m increase Of 60.s2o. Two years ago the
Republican plurality was 1876 and this
year it j. d, 245. IF MIR. Randall, or any
Dther Democrat, can extract any comfort out
]f these figures. he is welcome to it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

THE action of Judge Irwin in ordering an
investigation of the grand jury of his court
as now constituted will meet with strong
public approval. Under the circumstances
he could not do less without seeming
to ignore rumor, which, if true, indicates
fragrant violation of law, and a bold attempt
to trife with his court. The charge is that
the grand jury was not drawn according to
law and that one member was placed on it by
surreptitious methods and presumably for COR
rupt purposes This is grave charge, and
equally whether true or not should be investi-
gated. The idea that court could not take
judicial notice of such charge relating to its
own jurisdiction was not tenable, and Judge
Irwin has done well to abandon it. Now that
he has ordered an investigation he should see
that it is made thorough and searching.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

The New York World prints an interview
with Major Reno, formerly of the regular
army in which he attacks the memory of Gen.
eral Custer, charging him with incapacity as
an Indian fighter and with cowardice as SOL
der. General Clusters reputation is too well
established to be safely attacked by any per-
son, much less by one with Renos record.
He was himself charged with cowardice at the
Custer massacre, but was vindicated by
court of inquiry. He was afterward court
martialed for insulting the wife of brother
officer, and punished. He was court-mar-
tailed second time for similar offense, and
dismissed from the army.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22
In Iowa a non partisan movement is seekin

In Iowa a non bipartisan movement is seeking
to create public sentiment for the passage of
q law by the next Legislature establishing
.'courts of Cancellation" This certainly is
but in the line of the great principle of arbi-
tration which a nation have been fore
most in urging by both precept and example.
The institution proposed in Iowa, though new
with u.s. has had a long and successful career
in Europe and is of great value in decreasing
litigation.-News.
The nineteenth section of the seventh arti-
Gle of the Constitution of 1851 provided for
the establishment of tribunals of Cancellation,
and under the provision such courts were or
ganized. There was one in the county of
Marion, and the record of the proceedings of
the court will be found among the archives
of the county. The Journal has but lately
printed some extracts from such record,
signed by the late Solomon Blair, who acted
as judge of the Court of Cancellation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22
STRANGE sUPERsTITIoNs.
Belief In Witcncraft in Southeastern Indians
Sixty Years Ago.

Belief in Witchcraft in Southeastern Indians
Sixty Years Ago.
About sixty years ago many of the people re-
siding in the neighborhood of East Enterprise
were possessed of delusion that witches were
reality, and that number of their neighbors
were ful-hedRed witches possessed of remarka-
BILE powers, even to the saddliDg and brdne Of
q man, and with sharp spurs riding Elm all over
the worst roads distorted mind could ina CINE.
The next morning the poor man would be so
tired and sore that he could hardly move. AS
other times the housewife would churn half q
day and would not get particle OF butter. The
only remedy TO take old horseshoe that
had been worn on the left foot of baid-face
horse and heat il hot and drop it into the churn.
which was pretty certain to expel the terrible
witch.
dropped the red hot shoe into the churn heard
something run off the roof of the house, and
smelt hair just as sure as you are born, and in
FIVE minutes | had churn nearly full of butter
The next dav saw the woman that believed
had bewitched the butter. and her hair
WAS crisped one side in the very
shape of horseshoe" If the above rem
edy failed tbs next thing to do was to
draw a life size picture of the supposed witch,
and nail it tree. and then run silver
bullet out of silver dollar and shoot the image.
The last act was considered complete cure.
One of tho ardent believers in witches. a man
in the prime of life, possessed of fair sense in
other matters, told in our hearing what trying
ordeal he had passed through few evenings
before. He had been to vieit the sick and was
returning about 10 O'Clock through the fields.
often clint Ding hign fences. Flnaiiy. as ne
got up high ten-rail fence, with one leg
thrown over the top rail, he saw standing on
the other side whom be knew to be
witch She said nothing, but put a spell on
him that rivete6 him to the spot. and he said he
was as speeches. Lots wife when she was
turned into salt When daylight came the
witch vanished. and he got over the fence and
went home. He says the top rail WAS very
sharp one. and he didn't get over the soreness
for a month.
When the mems failed to hatch their eggs it
did their worst work Friday. If the rail
fences were down when they were covered with
sieet and ice the witches were blamed with it.
II a calf got choked on apples or potatoes. the
witches were responsible. It was fact not to be
wondered at that every one of these believers in
witches believed the world to be fiat" Many
of them would have hung the supposed witches,
as their ignorant forefathers did in early day,
if they had been possessed of the power. Two
of the swapped wives for month so.
and il WAS ali laid at the doors of those terrible
Ygifchea
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22
LINCoLN.s CELEBRATED PHRASE.
"He Made No Pretense of Originality in the
Matter" Says Ward lei. Lamon.
Wa I'd IL Lett

IA
Ward f. Lannon'S Letter.
For using, in his Gettysburg speech, the cele-
brated phrase 1.-The government of the people
by the people, and for the people shall not per-
ish from the earth" Mr. Lincoln has been sub
iected to brutal criticism as well as the most
groundless fattery. Some have been base
enough to insinuate against that great and sin
eere man the crime of wlllful plagiarisn others
have ascribed to him the homer of originating
the phrase entire. There is injustice to him in
either view of the case personally know that
Mr.. Lincoln made no pretense of originality in
the matter, was he conscious of having ap-
propriated the thought or the words of any other
mani
If he be subject to the charge of plagiarism
SO is the great Webster. who used substantially
the same phrase III his celebrated reply to
Hayne Each may have acquired the peculiar
form of expression. the thought itself being as
old as the republican idea of government by
the process known as unconscious appropria
ton. Certain it is that neither Webster nor
Lincoln originated the phrase. Let US see how
the case stands:
In the preface to the old Wickliffe Bible pub
lished A. D., 1924. is the following declaration:
This Bible is for the government of the people.
by the people and for the people, which Ian
guage is identical with that employed by Mr..
Lincoln in his Gettysburg speech. In an adj
dress before the New England anti-slavery con-
vention in Boston. May %. 1850, Theodore
Parker defined democracy "a govern
ment of all the people, by all the people,
for all the people of course" Substantially
the phrase used by Judge Joel Parker
in the Massachusetts constitutional convention
in 1853. a distinguished diplomatic has acquaint-
ed me with the singular fact that almost the
identical phrase employed by Mr.. Lincoln was
used in another language by person whose
existence even was not probably known to Mr..
Webster the Parkers or Mr.. Lincoln, and who
certainly did not borrow it from them On
page 81 of n work entitled Geschichte
der Schweizerischen Regeneration 1880 bis
184S. Won p Feddersen," appears an account of
public meeting held at Often, Switzerland, in
May, $780, On that occasion speaker named
Schinz used the following language: .sAll the
governments of Switzerland referring to the
cantons) must acknowledge that they sim
ply from the people, by the people. and for the
people,
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busily engaged in the closing up of the new
book upon which he has been working for
long time. It will interest the friends of
General Wallace to know that on Friday
last he received letter from Baron Tauch-
nitz, of Leipsic, asking authority to publish
"Ben-Hur' in the celebrated Tauchnitz edi-
tons. This courtesy and compliment from
the distinguished publisher, when he had a
legal right to pirate the volume, is an
acknowledgment of the standing of the
General as an author. and the value it will
he in Europe to issue an authorized edition of
one of the most remarkable books of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

TIE latest revision of the civil-service rules
lis said to be for the purpose of eliciting more
personal information in regard to applicants
and to guard against impositions." The Re-
publican who Imposes" on this reform ad-
ministration by passing its examinations and
securing an appointment. from this time on
viii have to be very talented indeed. The de-
sired end, however, could be gained by the re-
formers much more directly by substituting
for the inquisitorial formula the simple rule,
enc Republicans need apply"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-22

The question of a new State Constitution
is under discussion in Kentucky. Among
other antiquated provisions in the present
Constitution is one making preachers ineligi-
BILE to sit in the Legislature, yet in recent
years several have been elected and have
served, Notwithstanding the prohibition. The
Constitution also forbids free negroes to settle
in the State. provision which, like the
other is dead letter. Even il the Consti-
tuition could not be improved in other
respects, it would be worth while to amend it
by eliminating these obsolete provisions. 1t
is bad policy to keep laws on the statute
books or provisions in constitution which are
constantly violated. It would be a good
thing for Kentucky to have new Constitu-
ton in accord with the progressive spirit of
the age: blu she is not likely to get it as long
as the Bourbon Democracy can prevent it.